Yodo River System

1355-Serikawa Dam

Date of report:2021/10/9 (Sat) & 10/31 (Sun)Serikawa Dam has been undergoing seismic reinforcement and facility repair work under the "2021 Great Repair" project for several years. Personally, I had not visited the Serigawa Dam in the Koto area of Shiga Prefecture, but recently, the construction of the main body of the embankment was completed...

2022.01.22

Dam in Shiga Prefecture

1382-Tomiei Pond/Tomisakaike

Date of interview: 1/4/2014 (Sat.) The last visit of the day was to Fuei-ike Pond. Like Mawari-ike and Nishigaya Dam, Fuei-ike is an important earth dam that supports agriculture. The stone monument on the left bank and the dike stone monument reads "Ice House Village. There was an icehouse nearby for offering ice to the Imperial Court...

2021.07.08

Kyoto Prefecture Dam

3253-Nishigatani Dam

Date of visit: 1/4/2014 (Sat.) After Mawari-ike Pond, we visited Nishigaya Dam. It is easily accessible from Mawari-ike via National Route 477, but on the day we visited, the national highway was closed due to a typhoon the previous year, so we had no choice but to take a long detour via Prefectural Route 50....

2021.07.04

Kyoto Prefecture Dam

1380-Mawariike

Date: 1/4/2014 (Sat.) After leaving the Segi Dam, the next place we visited was Mawari-ike. Mawari-ike is an earth dam for agricultural use. There are not many places to park a car, but the national highway side was closed to traffic due to a typhoon the previous year...

2021.07.01

Kyoto Prefecture Dam

1399-Segi Dam

Date of interview: 1/4/2014 (Sat.) On this day, I was making my first dam visit to the dams in eastern Hyogo and western Kyoto. I had visited Hiyoshi Dam several times, but I remembered that there was a dam upstream of Hiyoshi Dam that I had not yet visited, so I visited the Segi Dam. The Segi Dam is downstream of the Hiyoshi Dam, which was built...

2021.06.26

Kyoto Prefecture Dam

1319-Midorodamu

Date of report：2013/11/9 (Sat)On the way to Kawakami Dam before starting the construction of the main body, I visited this Madori Dam after Takeya Pond and Teratani Pond. It is a bit difficult to read. Since the Madori Dam is also an earth dam, it was the third earth dam we visited that day. At the beginning of the day, we saw the upstream face of the embankment...

2021.06.05

Dam in Mie Prefecture

1297-Teratani Pond

Date: 11/9/2013 (Sat)On the way to the tour of Kawakami Dam in Mie Prefecture before the construction of the main body of the dam started, I visited Teradani Pond next to Takeya Pond. Teradani Pond is also an irrigation reservoir and earth dam in Iga City. The approach to the dam is a short walk to the embankment, but you may get lost...

2021.05.29

Dam in Mie Prefecture

1307-Takeya Pond/Taketani Ike

Date of interview: 11/9/2013 (Sat.) Since there was a tour at Kawakami Dam in Mie Prefecture on that day before the construction of the main body started, I decided to visit the unvisited dams before moving to the site. Takeya Pond was the first dam of the day. A little further in from the Iga Drive-in on the Meihan National Highway (R25)...

2021.05.22

Dam in Mie Prefecture

3625-Ohara Dam

Date of interview: 2/11/2013 (Monday)On this day, I toured the dams in Shiga with Mr. Miyajima, a dam enthusiast who came to Japan. And this was our first visit to Ohara Dam. Ohara Dam was originally started in 1943 and completed in 1958, although construction was interrupted during the Pacific War...

2020.05.06

Dam in Shiga Prefecture

3584-Nikkei Dame / Shiga Prefecture

Date of interview: 2/3/2013 (Sun)After visiting Yasu River Dam and Zao Dam (Shiga), where all dam enthusiasts are discharging water, we headed to an earth dam called Nikeitamen. We had tried this dam once, but when we tried to approach it from the ruins of Otowa Castle on the west side of the...

2020.05.05

Dam in Shiga Prefecture

1424-Toyoura Mountain Pond

Date of interview: 1/26/2013 (Sat)There are several unusual dams in Osaka, and I was particularly interested in this Toyourayama Pond because of its unusual location. At first, it was listed as an unconfirmed dam, but someone identified its location in a dam handbook operated by the Japan Dam Association, and...

2020.05.04

Osaka Prefecture Dam

1580-Nunome Dam/Nunome Dam (Nunome Lakeside Cycle Festa 2012)

Date of report：2012/05/20 (Sun.) This is a report on the Nunome Dam tour held in conjunction with the Nunome Lakeside Cycle Festa. Please refer to the article on Nunome Dam, which was first published here. Nunome Lakeside Cycle Festa

2019.09.16

Nara Prefecture Dam

1582-Miyauku Dam

Date of report：2012/03/31 (Sat)On the way to the Otaki Dam, where a test discharge was to be conducted, I noticed a sign that said there was a dam and made a hasty stop at the Miyaoku Dam. The Miyaoku Dam is located on National Route 370, and when you turn right at the signpost for the Miyaoku Dam and drive for a while, you will see the embankment in front of you...

2019.02.10

Nara Prefecture Dam

1359-Ishida River Dam

Date of visit: Saturday, March 10, 2012Location: Kadokawa, Imazu-cho, Takashima City, Shiga PrefectureI stopped by the Otsuro Dam on my way home from a visit to the test discharge of the dam, but it was too late in the evening and there was quite a bit of snow on the ground to get close to the embankment. Casual approach to the downstream reduction works (as far as ...

2019.02.03

Dam in Shiga Prefecture

3084-Takigawa Dam

We arrived at the Takigawa Dam. Approaching from an empty main street, the embankment can be glimpsed at the end of a curve. The Taki River Dam is a gravity-type concrete dam built in the Takayama area of Iga City on the Taki River, a small branch of the Hijiki River, a branch of the Kizu River, a branch of the Yodo River system. It is a very simple, cost-effective dam of the type often seen in prefectural dams. / Gravity concrete dam / 29.8m

2012.09.11

Dam in Mie Prefecture

3335-Tongu Pond/Tongu Ike

Commonly seen reservoir type earth dam. An important dam that supports local agriculture and farmers. After leaving the Hinogawa Dam, we next headed for Tongu Pond, an earth dam that has been selected as one of the "50 Best Reservoirs in Shiga. You can see it on the left when you go south from the Hinogawa Dam on Prefectural Road No. 41, but be careful when driving as the road narrows at some points along the way. / Earth dam / 22m

2012.08.22

Dam in Shiga Prefecture

1358-Hinogawa Dam

The Hino River Dam is properly a gravel fill dam (more precisely, a central core gravel fill dam), which is not made of larger stones like a rock-fill dam, but of raised gravel. The dam is loved by the local people as a place for recreation such as fishing and walking, and even though it is small in scale, it works well...that is the image of this dam. / Rockfill dam / 25m

2012.08.21

Dam in Shiga Prefecture

3601-Hinogawa Wakidamu

I had intended to put them together as the Hino River Dam, but when I looked at the dam handbook, etc., I discovered that there was a side dam, and I had to sort through the photos in a hurry.... However, it is difficult to determine where the Hino River Dam begins and ends at the side dam, and since I did not intend to take these photographs in the first place, there is a possibility that my memory is mistaken. / Earth dam / 19m

2012.08.19

Dam in Shiga Prefecture

1366-Zao Dam

The Zao Dam was built to secure water for agriculture of 4,986 ha of rice paddies and 225 ha of fields in Omihachiman City, Ryuo Town, Hino Town, and Higashiomi City, Gamo-gun, and is not a particularly remarkable dam. This is one of the important agricultural water utilization facilities in the Higashiomi area, so it is quietly watching over agriculture.... / Rockfill dam / 56m

2012.08.19

Dam in Shiga Prefecture

3195-Yasu River Dam/Yasugawa Dam

The Yasu River Dam is a gravity-type concrete dam for irrigation only and has an old history. 50 years have passed and the dam has become decrepit, so it will undergo overall renovation, which will be completed in 2010. I like the old smoked silver dam, but a fully renovated modern concrete dam is not bad either. / Gravity concrete dam / 54.4m

2012.08.18

Dam in Shiga Prefecture

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